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<h1>About<a class="headerlink" href="#about" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>A library for fitting continuous piecewise linear functions to data. Just specify the number of line segments you desire and provide the data.</p>
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<p>Example of a continuous piecewise linear fit to data.</p>
<p>All changes now stored in
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/cjekel/piecewise_linear_fit_py/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md">CHANGELOG.md</a></p>
<p>Please cite pwlf in your publications if it helps your research.</p>
<div class="highlight-bibtex notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nc">@Manual</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nl">pwlf</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="na">author</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Jekel, Charles F. and Venter, Gerhard}</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="na">title</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{{pwlf:} A Python Library for Fitting 1D Continuous Piecewise Linear Functions}</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="na">year</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{2019}</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="na">url</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{https://github.com/cjekel/piecewise_linear_fit_py}</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
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